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Welcome, Emaya Cleaver

Today, at 7:24am, after 3 hours of hard labour, our baby daughter Emaya Cleaver was born at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto. Andrea and Emaya are doing well’ Tayden – our almost 3 year old – is a happy brother, and … Continue reading

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Apple did indeed get their hardware fix for Sandy Bridge in the 2011 MacBook Pro

Almost exactly 3 years ago I switched to my first Mac, buying a late 2007 MBP. I’ve been delighted with the Apple laptop experience and have been waiting ever-so-impatiently to upgrade to a 2011 MacBook Pro. My only disappointment of … Continue reading

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Request to Meetup.com – play nice with other subdomains

I wrote the following email to Meetup.com today: I need additional help with http://www.meetup.com/help/How-do-I-set-up-a-custom-domain-for-my-Meetup-Group/ – this is also listed on Uservoice I have set up http://toronto.knowledgeworkers.org for my group, Toronto Knowledge Workers. I now need to provide a common navigation … Continue reading

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WikiSym 2010: Call for Papers, and Call to Industry

The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration WikiSym 2010 website July 7-8-9 in Gdansk, Poland. Co-located with Wikimania 2010 (Intl. Conference on Wikimedia Foundation projects, Wikimania 2010 website). Peer-reviewed and archived in the ACM Digital Library. Important dates March … Continue reading

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Are you 40+ and will video game for the first time just for Rock Band Beatles Edition?

Hi all – can you forward this through your networks? Any Beatles older fans (40s, 50s, 60s) so excited about The Beatles: Rock Band that will start gaming for the first time because of its release? In case you don’t … Continue reading

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MacSpeech shelfware

Cross posting here in case someone at MacSpeech deletes my non-fan comment on their Facebook fan page: My opinion? Not exciting. Overpriced. Broken. I am livid that Macspeech Dictate 1.3 is broken beyond usability, that it would cost me so … Continue reading

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TVO’s Agenda Camp: Innovation Economy.

Each of these episodes explored a swathe of gaps, which after debate, workers, industry leaders, government drew some conclusions about issues. The issues and opportunities that arose are documented on http://wiki.theagenda.tvo.org/ and there are some 45 short videos from each … Continue reading

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5 user licenses for Confluence Wiki & JIRA Bug Tracking for $5

I’ve you’ve been thinking about evaluating, or using Confluence or JIRA for a small team, now would be a great time to acquire a license. Atlassian, a leader vendor (I have done many wiki deployments of Confluence: it’s a solid … Continue reading

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Bell want to impose upstream caps and penalties on it’s upstream ISPs

I received this a few hours ago from my ISP, Teksavvy. I object that: If there was really a scarcity tariffs should be priced at decreasing marginal rate, not at a punitive one This affects everyone but the deadline is … Continue reading

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Toronto Wiki Tuesday: Wikis at TV Ontario

It’s Toronto Wiki Tuesday time! Reserve you spot & get on the announcements list: http://www.meetup.com/TorontoWikiTuesdays/calendar/9904930/ Speaker: Keith Robinson This month’s speaker is from TV Ontario and will speak about the use of wikis for TVO’s The Agenda When and Where: … Continue reading

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